Wednesday, February 8, 2012

How can you turn bamboo into cloth, and bowls?

I have to "survive" on an island for a school project. I need to know how to make bamboo into cloth, bowls, and a shelter that is large enough to sleep four people.

How can you turn bamboo into cloth, and bowls?
Shelter is easy. you can make a A frame, lean to , or teepee from the stems and layer the leaves to run off the rain. If it was a big thick stem bamboo, you could split the tube vertically and lay it down like the old clay tiles. The dome joins two gutter.



Bowl; again, easy if big stuff. split longitudinally and cut off with a nde at each end. There will be a "bowl"or trough between. Alternatively, weave leaves together.



Cloth; this is probably a weave leaves thing. Bashing the stem down like they do with cannabis to make hemp cloth might also work.



The thing about bamboo is that it varied from grass like stuff to very big and tall stuff(8"x20-40').
Reply:I don't know, considering the strength of bamboo that you could, under the circumstances, make this into anything but a shelter and then, you'd have a time cutting it or finding a way to make it usable.

Into cloth or material, no, a shelter, yes.
Reply:Most people dont know this and its kind of funny. Bamboo cloth and clothing is actually cellulose from crushed and processed canes and chemically turned into Rayon(tm) and woven. Its EXCATLY the same rayon made from cotton or any other source of cellulose.

Its an industrial process, certainly not diy.



The bowl could just be one node of a large cane with the

node intact at the bottom and open at top



The shelter can be poles(canes) formed into a leanto and covered with whatever

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